org.apache.oro.text.awk

Class AwkPattern

public final class AwkPattern extends Object implements Pattern, Serializable

An implementation of the Pattern interface for Awk regular expressions. This class is compatible with the AwkCompiler and AwkMatcher classes. When an AwkCompiler instance compiles a regular expression pattern, it produces an AwkPattern instance containing internal data structures used by AwkMatcher to perform pattern matches. This class cannot be subclassed and cannot be directly instantiated by the programmer as it would not make sense. It is however serializable so that pre-compiled patterns may be saved to disk and re-read at a later time. AwkPattern instances should only be created through calls to an AwkCompiler instance's compile() methods

Since: 1.0

Version: 2.0.8

See Also: AwkCompiler AwkMatcher

Method Summary
intgetOptions()
This method returns an integer containing the compilation options used to compile this pattern.
StringgetPattern()
This method returns the string representation of the pattern.

Method Detail

getOptions

public int getOptions()
This method returns an integer containing the compilation options used to compile this pattern.

Returns: The compilation options used to compile the pattern.

getPattern

public String getPattern()
This method returns the string representation of the pattern.

Returns: The original string representation of the regular expression pattern.

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